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Some students have the foresight to see past their undergraduate college searches and onto their graduate school careers. Does going to a certain undergraduate college give you a better opportunity of going to graduate school?

That correlation is tough to tell, but U.S. News recently surveyed 1,756 undergraduate programs to find out what percentages of their undergraduate classes were heading on to grad school. The study found that an average of 25.5% of students attended graduate school within a year of graduating college. There were some schools, however, that seemed like outliers…

Here are the 10 colleges with the highest percentage of students who go on to graduate school:

It’s what we’ve all be waiting for: the Forbes list of the best public and private colleges in the U.S.

The list was compiled with research from the Center for College Affordability & Productivity and takes into account the students’ point of view on what they want out of an education. The list is based on the quality of the education the schools provide, the experiences of the students and how much they achieve.

2. Princeton UniversityQuick fact: Princeton is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.

3. Amherst College
Quick fact: Amherst was classified “most selective” by U.S. News and World Report in their Best Colleges 2010 report.

4. United State Military Academy
Quick fact: The student body, or Corps of Cadets, numbers 4,400 and each year approximately 1000 cadets join the Long Gray Line as they graduate and are commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

5. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyQuick fact: In the past 60 years, MIT’s educational disciplines have expanded beyond the physical sciences and engineering into fields like biology, cognitive science, economics, philosophy, linguistics, political science, and management.

6. Stanford UniversityQuick fact: The university’s assets include a US$12.6 billion endowment, the third largest of any academic institution.

7. Swarthmore CollegeQuick fact: The school was founded in 1864 by a committee of Quakers who were members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, New York Yearly Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

8. Harvard UniversityQuick fact: Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any school in the world, standing at $26 billion as of September 2009.

12. Wellesley College
Quick fact: Wellesley College is a women’s liberal-arts college, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, that opened in 1875.

13. Columbia UniversityQuick fact: It was founded in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain, and is one of only three United States universities to have been founded under such authority.

14. Haverford CollegeQuick fact: It is the oldest college or university in the United States with Quaker origins.

15. Wesleyan UniversityQuick fact: Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that both emphasizes the provision of undergraduate instruction in the arts and sciences and also funds graduate research in many academic disciplines, granting PhD degrees primarily in the sciences and mathematics, according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

16. Whitman CollegeQuick fact: Whitman is located in Walla Walla, Washington…which is kinda a neat name.

17. Pomona CollegeQuick fact: Although located in California, the founders of Pomona wanted to create a college in the same mold as small New England institutions.

18. Northwestern UniversityQuick fact: Northwestern is a founding member and remains the sole private institution in the Big Ten Conference.

20. University of ChicagoQuick fact: It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890.

21. Carleton CollegeQuick fact: The popular early computer game The Oregon Trail was created, and later further developed, by students at Carleton in 1971.

22. Harvey Mudd CollegeQuick fact: Harvey Mudd shares university resources such as libraries, dining halls, health services, and campus security, with the other institutions in the Claremont Colleges, including Pitzer College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, and Pomona College, but each college is independently managed by its own faculty, board of trustees, and college endowment and has its own separate admissions process.

23. Vassar College
Quick fact: Founded as a women’s college in 1861, it became coeducational in 1969.

24. Centre College
Quick fact: The campus is currently changing with some frequency: a new student residence, Pearl Hall, was completed in 2008; a new campus center opened in October 2009; and construction for a new science wing on Young Hall will be completed in 2010.

25. Rice CollegeQuick fact: The story of how Rice College was founded is laced with a murder. But there shouldn’t be any ghosts on campus…

Do these surprise you? What college is missing from this list? Leave a comment below!